{"id":15759,"date":"2025-10-22T14:07:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T14:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/15759\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T14:07:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T14:07:07","slug":"love-big-tex-now-is-the-chance-to-design-his-next-pair-of-boots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/15759\/","title":{"rendered":"Love Big Tex? Now is the chance to design his next pair of boots"},"content":{"rendered":"

The State Fair of Texas<\/a> might be over this year, but now is the time for creatives to help design Big Tex’s pair of boots for next year.<\/p>\n

The Big Tex Boot Design Contest begins Oct. 22 and runs through Jan. 31, 2026. The winning design will be announced on March 2, 2026.<\/p>\n

The boot design contest launched in 2019 to honor that year’s theme \u2013 “Celebrating Texas Creativity.” A Keller artist won, highlighting Texas bluebonnets, the Alamo, armadillos and the Texas flag.<\/p>\n

The last time Big Tex got a new pair of shoes was in 2023, when Irving resident Jessica Bonilla’s design won the contest.<\/p>\n

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Big Tex’s boots designed by Jessica Bonilla of Irving.<\/p>\n

State Fair of Texas<\/p>\n

As the winner, Bonilla worked with fair officials and Lucchese to put finishing touches on her design before it came to life on Big Tex’s iconic size 96 boots.<\/p>\n

Artists are asked to draw, paint or illustrate their designs on templates provided by the fair online<\/a> and to submit them with an entry form.<\/p>\n

Big Tex’s boots on display<\/p>\n

This summer, another pair of Big Tex’s boots traveled to Washington, D.C.<\/a>\u00a0and was put on display at the Smithsonian Institution as part of a new exhibit.<\/p>\n

For the first time, this specific pair of boots left the Lone Star State to join “State Fairs: Growing American Craft,” a year-long exhibition celebrating the rich cultural traditions of state fairs across the country. <\/p>\n

Now through Sept. 7, 2026, the exhibit showcases iconic pieces of Americana, from Iowa’s life-sized butter cow to a pyramid of 700 glass jars filled with preserved fruit. \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The State Fair of Texas might be over this year, but now is the time for creatives to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15760,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[6595,10503,102,368,27,29,28],"class_list":["post-15759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-art","tag-big-tex","tag-dallas","tag-state-fair-of-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15759\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}